2 B R 0 2 B

by Kurt Vonnegut · first published 1962

"2 B R 0 2 B" is a science fiction short story by American author Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction for January 1962 and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr.

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